collegiate education
type: Concept
narrower: Fisk University

organizations
type: Collection
type: ConceptGroup
member: Fisk University

Historically Black Colleges and Universities
type: Concept
narrower: Fisk University

Fisk University
type: Concept
definition: On January 9, 1866, Fisk Free Colored School, named in honor of General Clinton B. Fisk, was opened in Nashville, Tennessee. The school, which first offered instruction in the primary subjects of alphabet, lettering, and counting to formerly enslaved Africans of all ages, quickly evolved into Fisk University. [Source: Encyclopedia of African American Education; Fisk University]
broader: Historically Black Colleges and Universities
broader: collegiate education